Part III: A systematic change perspective The members of the UK NPM and the French NPM269 have mission statements, without necessarily calling it such. The German NPM has expressed its basic purpose in a slogan it uses for its work, prompted by the need to have its mandate better understood by its counterparts. Other NPMs consulted do not yet have a clear mission statement; some have referred to the respective laws that establish the NPM or article 19 (1) OPCAT. Dimensions of change It is a common feature of a systematic change perspective to identify the dimensions in which change needs to take place. Two relevant experiences are worth mentioning here which can serve as guidance for NPM strategic planning. In its approach to impact and evaluation,270 Amnesty international has identified four dimensions in which desired human rights change should take place; 1. Changes in people’s lives, 2. Changes in practice and accountability, 3. Changes in law, policies and standards, 4. Changes in civil society, media and other channels of influence. These dimensions also provide the analytical frame for its situation analysis. If these ‘dimensions of change’ are translated into the NPM context, they could read as follows: At the core, change must take place with regard to the treatment of persons deprived of their liberty and the conditions of detention. In order to achieve this: hh Changes might need to take place in the concrete functioning and management of the respective place of detention, hh Changes might need to take place at the higher organisational level/institutional arrangement, e.g. in the ministerial bureaucracy, in the central prison administration hh Changes might need to take place at the level of public awareness and public policies, e.g. with regard to public security hh Changes might need to take place at the level of the law changes in places of detention: functioning management changes in the law change in conditions and treatment of PdL changes in institutional arrangements changes in public awareness & public policies The mission statement of the French NPM says as follows: ‘Sa mission: veiller au respect des droits fondamentaux - Le Contrôleur général veille à ce que les personnes privées de liberté soient traitées avec humanité et dans le respect de la dignité inhérente à la personne humaine’ <http://www.cglpl.fr/missions-et-actions/sa-mission/>; for an English translation of the mission statement see <http://www.cglpl.fr/en/the-tasks-of-the-controleur-general-des-lieux-deprivation-de-liberte/>. 270 Amnesty International, Impact Assessment Toolkit (2011), further developed in 2013, see <http://www.intrac.org/data/files/Afternoon/3Amnesty_International_-_final.pdf>. - 93 269